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PholkTales: Encounters With the Band
It's a Friday night down in Cleveland on the 15th of December, and me and 2 friends are going down to the Odeon to see MMW. On the drive over, we were joking that Trey would come on stage, then Page, then Mike, then Fish, and they'd just kick off MMW and end their hiatus right then and there. That didn't happen. 

Ok, now it's the end of the first set, and we were standing pretty far back, and it's first come first serve for how close you can get to the stage. Instead of going back to get a drink or something in the set break, we decide to go up as far as we can to the front to get kick-ass spots. We made it to the very front, on Billy Martin's side. 

Then they come back on, but instead of 3, there's 4 guys that come out on stage. First i just stared, completely in shock, then joined everyone else in screaming "FISHMAN!!!" The place was going crazy. I was right there, no more than 10 feet away. I swear he was looking at me for a while too. So he stayed on for 3 songs, then back to just good ol' MMW instead of MMWF. 

We heard he was walking around in the back, so during the encore (a kick ass chubb subb), we went back to find him, with no luck. But it's still in my top 5 favorite concert experiences. I wonder what he was doing in Cleveland anyway?

- Matt


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